“We’ve had a ton of feedback, in particular about the introduction of a retroactive change (some people have had accounts for 10 plus years),” wrote Pelegio. “But also about the negative impact on individuals who post sexually explicit content to express their identities.”

“So rather than implement this change, we’ve decided to step up enforcement about our existing policy prohibiting commercial porn.”

Google’s Blogger terms of service already outline an existing ban on the service being used to distribute commercial pornography, i.e. for significant monetary gain.